Spatial contagion drives colonization and recruitment of frogflies on clutches of red-eyed treefrogs

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 887-889

  Hughey, Myra C ^a,b   McCoy, Michael W ^a,c   Vonesh, James R ^d   Warkentin, Karen M ^a,e  

^a USA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Agalychnis; Associational susceptibility; Megaselia; Reward contagion

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; COLONIZATION; FLY; FROG; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIAL COGNITION;

AGALYCHNIS; ANURA; HYLA;

EID: 84866657524     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0468     Document Type: Article

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